Hi there, I wondered, how many of the people on here regularly read either the Islington Tribune or Islington Gazette?
I'm doing a Master's in Newspaper Journalism and am looking into the impact of local sites like this on the readership of local papers.
Does anyone who reads this forum think that it means there is no need to buy a local paper? Or are they complementary?
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I always buy the Islington Gazette or the local paper wherever I am living as you can't find local news anywhere else. You can get it on the online versions but it's not as good.
Also, I like looking at the property section too, but its mainly for news.
I hope you write your thesis about this incredible revelation.
By the way, most of Stroud Green is in Haringey, not Islington. Maybe you could write a thesis about that too.
The Islington Tribune, sibling paper to the Camden New Journal, is an excellent sheet, and free, to boot. It has a pinkish tinge, which suits this old armchair leftie, and an excellent Review section. Paul Foot's son Tom is one of the regulars, along with other familiar names from the past, like John Horder, Iltydd (sp?) Harrington, etc.
As for this place, SG.org, I am addicted, even though it is often little more than gossip about shops and knitting, etc. News, when it arrives this way, often reaches us first, by word of mouth. Incidents, often semi-criminal, traffic news, shop closures, pass quickly from one SG.Orgiast to another, at lightning speed.
Thus I was able to bring joy to the delightful Philistine's ears, long before any of us heard it on the radio, with news of the A & E victory. I expect we'll be the first too to hear it was all election guff, and that the Whittington as whole is due for the scrap heap, once the new government gets its feet under the table.Oh God.
That do you, tbp? Good luck with the thesis. Mine was on Brahms's chamber music. 1966. What a nightmare. Never again.
Slabber, yes, remiss of me not to mention the Haringey, Hornsey papers too ... I live on the western extreme of Stroud Green, so am rather more Islington focused than many Stroud Greeners probably are.
Keep the comments coming.
Thanks
Tom
I have tried the local newspapers but prefer the forum as several people on here are very well informed and keep all of us abreast of the important goings on in a more engaging way than the newspapers can manage. I'm in the Wild West too, so always interested to see what's happening in Islington.
Good luck with it all.